Democrats Say Stimulus Failed Because You Kept Too Much Money

You and I are to believe that the great panacea known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is failing because people are keeping too much of their personal property. That is the line from the Democratic chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Rep. Jim Oberstar, looter from Minnesota, says that the stimulus failed because the tax cuts were too big:

Oberstar defended the $27 billion in the stimulus for highway and bridge projects as the right amount to help the economy during the next year. However, he said that more transit money in the stimulus would have been helpful to an economic recovery over the next three years, rather than the nearly $300 billion in tax cuts.

“Not many people realize they got a tax cut,” Oberstar said. “I have not received a single e-mail, phone call, snail mail, personal comment from anybody since we enacted this bill, since the end of February, saying, ‘I got my tax’ or ‘Thanks for the tax cut’ or ‘I hardly noticed it’ or anything.

“But I have had people saying, ‘I’m back at work because of the funding in the surface transportation program.’ ”

I wonder how many phone calls he has received saying they were against the stimulus, or prior to passing the stimulus, asking him to vote against it.

You want to really stimulate the government? I wrote a three step plan to do that, without looting the American tax payer. Here’s step one: Enact the Fairtax.

Do that and watch the jobs come back to America. Steps two and three are all gravy after that.